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Help with new Monitor

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Hi, I have today bought a monitor, and the first test showed 5.9. I know I have to wait 2 hours before testing again, but would it be ok to go for a walk, or wait til I have tested again. Thank you.
 
ChrisD said:
I know I have to wait 2 hours before testing again
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That would be 1 to 2 hours after eating, so the food has time to digest and hit the blood stream. (Some things digest and make your BG levels go up faster. See Lucozade and Jelly Babies.)
Otherwise, you test as needed.
ChrisD said:
but would it be ok to go for a walk, or wait til I have tested again.
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I hate walking, it's too much like exercise. So I say never walk. 😉
Are you feeling unwell, have some issue? If not, and want/need to walk then do so.
 
I'm not too sure what you mean? Generally people test again 2 hours after if they've eaten something right after the last test, did you have something to eat?

If you are trying to test what effect a food has on you then I'd be inclined to say no I wouldn't go for a walk as that could impact on the true result of the food
xx
 
Yes, sorry, should have said 2 hours after eating, and yes, I am testing to see effect - I didn't go for my walk until after testing and it went to 6.9 so not too bad.
 
ChrisD said:
Yes, sorry, should have said 2 hours after eating, and yes, I am testing to see effect - I didn't go for my walk until after testing and it went to 6.9 so not too bad.
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yeah to get the true effect of the food your better not to go for a long walk etc, that's an amazing result, well done! What did you have?
xx
 
I had minced quorn lasagne, made with sliced courgettes instead of pasta sheets, some oven baked carrots and sliced fennel, also oven baked x I try to cook all my food from scratch x White sauce made with butter, fiber flour. grated mozzarella cheese and coconut milk x
 
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ChrisD said:
I had minced quorn lasagne, made with sliced courgettes instead of pasta sheets, some oven baked carrots and sliced fennel, also oven baked x I try to cook all my food from scratch x
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edited to add - I tested when I got back from walk and the reading was 6.0
 
Excellent numbers.
 
You are doing very well
 
The only time that you should not take a walk is when your BS is very low (say lower than 4). This is very unlikely in type 11.
 
leonS said:
The only time that you should not take a walk is when your BS is very low (say lower than 4). This is very unlikely in type 11.
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Depends partly on medication. Those on insulin and gliclazide definitely at risk of hypos as far as I know.
 
You are right. It is not impossible to go hypo just perhaps less likely. It is possible to have a hypo on no medication, but you have to work hard for it to happen.

I think that gliclazide is long acting and can cause a second hypo hours after you have dealt with the first.
 
leonS said:
The only time that you should not take a walk is when your BS is very low (say lower than 4). This is very unlikely in type 11.
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This can depend on what meds you are on, eg gliclazide for one, if diet or metformin then I agree it would very much unlikely that you would have a hypo. I am type 2 in the past I regularly had hypos just because of the tablets I was on, after being in the teens for months, I had a hypo the other day.
 
leonS said:
The only time that you should not take a walk is when your BS is very low (say lower than 4). This is very unlikely in type 11.
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Strictly if your wanting to test solely what effect a food has on you it's not the best idea as it can alter results from the food mixed with exercise so you may end up thinking it has no effect but then if you did it with the same food and didn't go for a walk you could get totally different results
 
ChrisD, coming back to your original post. If I were starting again but knowing what I know now I would not even start thinking about what the results meant until I had got a week or twos' worth of data under my belt with readings taken on waking up, before meals, hour and a half after a meal and at bedtime. At the same time I would be noting what was in the meals and working out a rough carb count. I would also be noting any periods of exercise. I would keep the whole lot in a diary of some sort and if you can use a spreadsheet, stick it all in one. Its only then that you can begin to look for patterns, and even then they are likely to be indistinct. After a month things might become a bit clearer and after three months you will get a good feel of what affects you and by how much.

Good luck with getting to grips with your version of Type 2. It will be worth it. Took me best part of three months to work out that for me BG control was best achieved by a low carb diet rather than medication. It also showed me what carbs to avoid - some a bit unexpected, like a cappuccino shoving me well into double figures.
 
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